List of iwi

This is a list of the Māori iwi of New Zealand. According to the glossary definition of the National Library of New Zealand, "iwi" is a "Māori word for a set of people bound together by descent from a common ancestor or ancestors. Literally: bone. Modern meaning: tribe."[1]

Iwi

Name Rohe (location) Waka (canoe) People (2001)
Kāi Tahu - (see Ngāi Tahu below)
Kāti Mamoe - or "Ngāti Mamoe" South Island
Moriori † Chatham Islands 585
Muaupoko Levin 1,836
Nga Rauru - or Ngāti Rauru Taranaki Aotea-utanganui 3,090
Ngāriki Kaiputahi - or Ngā Ariki Gisborne Te Ikanui-a-Rauru 2,083
Ngā Ruahine Taranaki 3,228
Ngāi Tahu (also Kāi Tahu) South Island Tākitimu 39,180
Ngāi Tai - or Ngāti Tai Hauraki Tainui 177
Ngāi Tai - or Ngāti Tai Bay of Plenty 2,022
Ngai Takoto Northland 489
Ngai Tamanuhiri - or Ngāti Tāmanuhiri Gisborne 1,173
Ngaiterangi Matakana Island 9,561
Ngai Tuhoe Te Urewera Mataatua 29,259
Ngāpuhi Northland Ngatokimatawhaorua 102,981
Ngāpuhi ki Whaingaroa-Ngāti Kahu ki Whaingaroa Northland 1,965
"Ngāti Ākarana" Auckland 5,892
Ngāti Apa Manawatu-South Island 3,021
Ngāti Awa Kawerau-Bay of Plenty 13,044
Ngāti Hako Hauraki Gulf 924
Ngāti Hau Wanganui
Ngāti Hauā Waikato ? 6,400
Ngāti Hauiti Rangitikei 1,002
Ngāti Hei Hauraki Gulf 363
Ngāti Huia Waikato
Ngāti Kahu Northland Māmaru 6,957
Ngāti Kahungunu Hawke's Bay-Wairarapa Tākitimu 51,552
Ngāti Koata South Island 765
Ngāti Kuia South Island Te Hoiere 1,224
Ngāti Kurī Northland 4,647
Ngāti Mahuta Waikato
Ngāti Mamoe South Island 2,262
Ngāti Manawa unknown 1,542
Ngāti Maniapoto King Country Waikato Tainui 27,168
Ngāti Maru (Hauraki) Hauraki
Ngāti Maru (Taranaki) Taranaki
Ngāti Mutunga Taranaki-Chatham Islands 2,652
Ngāti Paoa Hauraki Gulf 2,397
Ngāti Pikiao (Te Arawa) Rotorua 5,022
"Ngāti Poneke" Wellington
Ngāti Porou East Cape Horouta 61,701
Ngāti Pukenga Tauranga 1,137
Ngāti Pūkenga ki Waiau Hauraki Gulf 273
Ngāti Rāhiri Tumutumu Te Aroha 93
Ngāti Ranginui Tauranga 6,120
Ngāti Rangiteaorere (Te Arawa) 177
Ngāti Rangitihi (Te Arawa) Bay of Plenty 1,041
Ngāti Rangiwewehi (Te Arawa) 1,551
Ngāti Rārua South Island 699
Ngāti Raukawa Waikato-Manawatu-Kapiti Tainui ? 24,000
Ngāti Rauru - or Nga Rauru Taranaki
Ngāti Rongomaiwahine Mahia Peninsula 4,254
Ngāti Ruanui Taranaki Aotea-utanganui 5,286
Ngāti Ruapani East Cape
Ngāti Tahu (Te Arawa) 1,209
Ngāti Tai - or Nga Tai or Ngai Tai Hauraki Gulf 177
Ngāti Tama King Country-Wellington-South Island-Chatham Islands 1,764
Ngāti Tāmanuhiri - or Ngāi Tāmanuhiri Gisborne
Ngāti Tamaterā Coromandel Peninsula Tainui 1,866
Ngāti Tara Tokanui Hauraki Gulf Tainui 330
Ngāti Te Ata Manukau Harbour 15,652
Ngāti Te Wehi Aotea Harbour Tainui 5000
Ngāti Toa/Ngāti Toarangatira Porirua Tainui 4,491
Ngāti Tukorehe South Waikato Tainui
Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri Nelson-Marlborough-West Coast Kurahaupō
Ngāti Tūtekohe East Cape
Ngāti Tuwharetoa Taupo 29,301
Ngāti Wai Northland 3,966
Ngāti Whakaue 5,061
Ngāti Whanaunga Waihi 399
Ngāti Whare 690
Ngāti Whātua Kaipara Harbour 12,105
Pakakohi Taranaki 408
Patukirikiri Hauraki Gulf 60
Poutini West Coast
Rangitane Northern South Island 4,401
Rongowhakaata Gisborne 3,612
Rongomaiwahine Mahia 2,322
Tai Ngahu South Island 1,094
Tainui Waikato 35,781
Tangahoe Taranaki 261
Tapuika (Te Arawa) 1,050
Taranaki Taranaki 5,940
Tarawhai (Te Arawa) 114
Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti East Cape
Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki Wairoa 4,365
Te Arawa Rotorua
Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi Whanganui 8,820
Te Āti Awa Taranaki, Wellington Tokomaru 17,445
Te Aupōuri Te Kao 7,848
Te Kawerau Northland 228
Te Rarawa Hokianga 11,526
Te Roroa Northland 966
Te Uri-o-Hau Northland 732
Te Whakatohea Opotiki 9,948
Te Whanau-a-Apanui East Cape 9,951
Tūhourangi (Te Arawa) 1,617
Uenuku-Kōpako (Te Arawa) 174
Waikato-Tainui see Tainui Waikato Region Tainui 52,000
Waitaha (Te Arawa) ? 1,800
Total iwi population ~616,746

 † The Moriori people are often distinguished from the Māori people, but share common ancestors.[2][3]

The location of iwi in New Zealand

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Iwi: glossary definition". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
  2. ↑ See 1904 paper by A. Shand on The Early History of the Morioris
  3. ↑ Skinner, H.D., The Morioris of the Chatham Islands, Honolulu, 1923. K. R. Howe. 'Ideas of Māori origins, Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 28 October 2008. Thomson, Arthur, The Story of New Zealand, Past and Present, Savage and Civilized, 2 vols, London, 1859, i, 61. Belich, James, Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders, from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century, University of Hawaii Press, 2002, pp.26, 65-66.

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